Louisiana

A Louisiana sheriff says there is no indication why a customer at a New Orleans-area gun store went on a sudden deadly shooting rampage that left another customer and a store employee dead.

Authorities say a person entered a gun store in a suburb of New Orleans and fatally shot two people before he was fired upon and died

In the Trump administration’s last days, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a change to rules protecting alligators. Opponents say it’s an end run around the chance that Louisiana might lose a federal court challenge to California’s ban on selling alligator products.

Louisiana residents created extravagant house floats to celebrate Mardi Gras amid the coronavirus pandemic.

New Orleans’ annual pre-Lenten Mardi Gras celebration is muted this year because of the coronavirus pandemic

A 10-year-old girl kidnapped from her New Iberia, Louisiana neighborhood Sunday is back with her family thanks to the quick actions of two sanitation workers

Louisiana sanitation workers used a truck to block the escape route and call police after spotting a car described in an Amber Alert, leading to the rescue of a 10-year-old victim.

A Louisiana man charged in the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol had discussed returning to Washington around the presidential inauguration and bringing rifles, ammunition and body armor, federal authorities said in court records.

Louisiana’s newest Republican member of the U.S. House, Luke Letlow, has died from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being he would have been sworn into office.

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., has died from complications of the coronavirus at the age of 41.

It’s been more than two months since violent weather walloped southwest Louisiana, yet the state is still far from being fully recovered.

Prosecutors have dropped rape and kidnapping charges against New Orleans rapper Mystikal, who was released from jail on a $3 million bond almost two years ago

A Louisiana man who was arrested and sentenced to life for selling $20 in marijuana to undercover officers when he was homeless is now free

Quawan “Bobby” Charles went missing from his home in Louisiana on Oct. 30 and was found dead in a cane field four days later with injuries so brutal that they drew comparisons to the infamous murder of Emmett Till. An attorney representing Charles’ family, Chase Trichell, joined LX News to discuss the ongoing investigation and why they are so frustrated...

A Louisiana man who admitted to burning down three predominantly African American churches has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay the churches $2.6 million.

Zeta made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Wednesday as a strong Category 2 hurricane before moving into neighboring Mississippi, losing intensity on its trail of destruction. Now a tropical storm, Zeta continues to barrel northeast. Three deaths have been attributed to the storm.

At least one person has died as Hurricane Zeta pounds New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast with heavy rains and howling winds before rapidly making its way through Mississippi and Alabama with strong gusty winds, heavy rains and dangerous storm surge

Hurricane Zeta made landfall on Mexico’s eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind.

Utility crews in Louisiana are scrambling to restore power and residents in the besieged southwest part of the state are vowing to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Delta

Louisiana residents are once again dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to find their homes flooded and pledging to rebuild after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged part of the state.